The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 55

1 9 SUNDAY STAR cPEBRUAR YWA1907 Spitefulness and tagging or Sf riy of the faults the fall? She Spirit Moved 'HP PPOU TEPOTO DE Man Proves fte £)ead made by sa rtgpLsnaiPLp fig leaf be neces entirely free from shall Jive on the fruits and plants field in the Garden We shall not a be of he specious and delusive his most winning and but she will turn a Mother Melissa Sharp loaves Mother Eve with a I shall bek able a fig leaf in time but we pily and guilelessly In the Garden and smell the flowers and listen to the birds We shall do no work forever and forever Adam will preach to us when the spirit moves gcbode poup POP 77P C'ff7LPlPPP OP TP of his brow When my Adam re men from their sins they have nf any need to work It would be a do so We shall Just wander hap woman tempted me and did in a restored Eden the woman must be a stronger and nobler character than Garden There we shall live for ScpiPTlJPJCi)Jna TPES who join the new religion trading There listen to brightest flower in the Garden of He has preached hundreds of times and he is almost as powerful a preacher as his father He will bring many of the race of Eve into the promised you ha a little Abel am I to Infer that there Is also a little Caln ventured the correspondent said Mother Ev4 makes us very sad to speak of Caln Yes we have a little Cain His name first was Thomas but when the light was revealed to us we knew that he was Cain He put oir dear little Abel on the stove and did a lot of other dreadful Of course Cain could not come into the Gar den of Eden We hadto leave him to wander In the wicked mean to say you have de serted vour Mother ffandsome Yoilr correspondent called at the present headquarters of Adam and Eve sect a large house on Marlon street lie was met by a handsome woman with an on thusiaslic and visionary smile upon her face Instinctively hefelt himself ip the presence of Mother Eve Eve I the corre spondent began lifting his hat reverently she answered am Mother Eve come back to earth again Do you wish to enter the Garden of I should like to visit it very She led the way into a large room full of untidy looking people among whom were a number jof children A ild eyed tremendously whiskered man sat upon a throne and announced in a loud voice that he was Adam sent to lead men back into ithe Garden of Eden The correspondent sidled into the most naturally Mrs as she is now woman of mag bc recalled that house in a state announced that sittinr in a nearby saloon drinking beer AU hands includ ing the undertaker rushed out of the house tn the saloon and found there the real Leona sure enough Asked why he had been away from home he said he had been a pretty good time regarded by' her followers How would you like to wander in the Garden of Eden with a new Eve entirely free from original sin curiosity spiteful ness or any other of the faults which have been imputed to woman since the fall? This is the pleasure that awaits those and it is at people in considerable numbers Is no dartger that this Eve will the voice of the serpent Ho may his most arguments employ seductive flatteries deaf ear to him Eve will invite no man to a picnic of for bidden fruit It must be' admitted that the members of the new are a strange looking lot and it appears that the majpflty of normal men will continue Jto the ordinary woman with all her faults including her disposition to listen to the voice of the serpent Nearly all the unhappiness and wicked nesH In the world are caused by this fault of woman as you are aware When she Is free from it the greatest cause of sin will bo removed and that Is why we shall all be good In the Garden of Eden woman have no desire to wear beautiful clothes In the Garden of said Mother with conviction desire was part of her punishment for her disobedience The woman was condemned to desire finery In order that she might perpetually tempt the mnn and he was condemned to labor in the sweat of his brow in order that he might perpetually strive in vain to satisfy her longings We are the new Adam and Eve and wo are sent to redeem our brothers and sisters from this slavery Henceforth Eve will only desire to appear as the Lord made The correspondent felt that he had learned everything essential about the new Garden of Eden and he went away As he did so Mother Eve called and join us when you are pure in Adam thumped bls Bible and yelled out: am opening up ih third kingdom 1 will redeem the world These children here will help "A cried Mother Eve echoed all the others you feel quite sure that none of the sisters and daughters of Eve will disturb your sinless and peaceful life in the Gar pursued the visitor course said Mother Eve in dignantly you imagine that you have failed to understand one of the greatest truths of our religion When woman is redeemed by Adam she ceases to lead man into temptation which is her great fault in an unregenerate state "Now look said a representative A of the keeper of the Morgue "this may be the real Leona all right and I suppose it Is but you've made two mistakes already and I want to be responsible for an other This time I want to be sure you ve got the right man" tf "Oh that's all exclaimed Leona can show you I'm the Me then exhibited a scar almost similar to that onijt the body "I got that in Italy and glad lie added The first was nephew who directed that the body be taken home A family i was held and after long debate It was decided the body was not that of Leona and it was ordered taken back to the'? Morgue But the council bad been di jb vided and one of the participants who did not agree with the majoilty gathered up a party of relatives' and friends went to the Morgue The visitors after careful Inspection of the bodj agreed was Leona beyond a doubt and once more instructions were given to send It home tjSi Is Leoni dead or alive? sin? It was after the fall that Adam and Eve found fig said of uneasiness to do without do not wish to offend the sinful and un regenorate We have been sent into the world to bring peace and happiness and not to stir up strife Whenever we need it we receive a revelation telling us just what we ought to do We shall know when the time is ripe to drop fig leaves 1 have no doubt that when every man Is a true member of the Garden of Eden fig leaves will not be many people already belong to the Garden of I think there are 200 of us now Many of them are children because they are most free from sin and therefore fit to enter the garden after Adam has preached the word to them for a short tlm We gather up oi phans amd chil dren of parents who are not able to care for you any children of your inquired the visitor "Oh yes 7 said Mother Eve smiling proudly and indicating a boy of 12 with la bulging forehead and a solemn expres sion "That is little Abel He is the 7 A 1 ST 1 siLid Uarden fotiP idould tbu £ike to £ive in ALL the freak new religionsthat arc flourishing in the I United States perhaps the most freakish is the Adam and Ere sect of Denver Col Adam is man formerly known as James Sharp and Eve is his wife former ly known ns Melissa Sharp The fundamental tenets of the' now re liglon are that'tliese two interesting peo ple are Adam and Eve 'returned to earth free from original sin 'and just as good as they' Were before the fall and their ex pulsion from the Garden of Eden They have a divine mission to load men and women back to the Garden of Eden which they will establish in the vicinity of Denver The central figure us Sharp qr Mother Eve called" a handsome 'young netic' personality It will Eve was unquestionably the most interest ing figure in the biblical drama of the fall WICE apparently identified as Cer tonlo Leona who had been missing for three days from his home in Newark and as many times re moved from the Morgue to the Leona home the body of a man hauled out of the rpssalc River still lies In Mullin's un dertaking establishment in Newark awaiting identification The body was supposed to be that of Leona because it had a scar on the left side just over the stomach This sear was about three Inches long and extended straight across After the second alleged identification and while the members of the family were bemoaning tire supposed fate of their rela tive and preparing ror inn lunerai friend of the man who was believed to dead rushed Into the great excltiment' and had just seen Leona everybody We shall need very little In the Garden i Eden We shail not have money or clothes or houses or any prop erty We shall sleep In the fields or un der fonts and every man will take what lie needs from his neighbor will be neither sin nor sickness In the Garden for It Was by sin that death came into the world Adam will cleanse men from their sins and lead them back to the ever of the have herds of cattle They were the ear liest form of property that man took to himself after the fall and they were a sign of his sinful condition It Is wicked to own cattle and to eat meat He that eats the flesh of his fellow creatures is surely bringing about his own destruction" "Will you do any work In the Garden of not You know that the first punishment of Adam for his disobedience was that he should earn his bread ip the sweat deems longer sin to een Smputed to Since distant corner of the room preferring toobtain enlightenment from Eve who kind ly accompanied him do you know that you are Adam and asked the visitor night when were were living in Oklahoma and had been attending a re vival meeting we saw a star fall and we knew it Was a sign Then we heard a voice saying arc Ad am and you are Eve Henceforth you are free from sin and sours is the gift of prophecy Go forth and lead the children of men back to the Garden of this the Garden of Eden here?" said Mother Eve is only the gateway where the redeemed are gathered together and instructed before they are led into the garden That is In one of the beautiful 'valley's of Colorado We shall move as soon as Adam has com pleted his preparations Only a pig £eaj shall dress only in a flg leaf as 1 did in the Garden of Eden and mv hus band Adam will redeem the ventured the correspondent delicately a sary in a community Cain Behind1 said Mother Eve "that is hard ly the way to putit Caln would not come with us He Is working for a grocer in Kansas City and is earning filthy "How will your community be support ed the Garden of "Every believer must give all that be hatband follow Adam He will care for of man and his expulsion from the Garden of Edon The role of man was a passive and rather cowardly one Eve listened to the voice of the serpent and was per suaded that it would be delightful to eat oft the forbidden fruit of the tree of I knowledge Then mistakenly she per suaded 'Adam to share the fruit with her believing that it would contribute to bis happiness When they were both punished for their 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